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Find Your Adventure âîâ�?Å©Gila Wilderness Backpack, Big Pine Country, New Mexico
trip overview
Backpacking in New Mexico
Highlights
The Gila is America's first designated Wilderness, originally protected in 1924.
Southwestern New Mexico's Gila Wilderness (pronounced Hee-la) is a big and rugged land of startling contrasts and tremendous diversity, where mule deer, elk, coyote, black bear, mountain lion and wild turkey abound in a magnificent setting. Here are the wild tributary canyons of the Gila River, characterized by rich riparian deciduous forests. There are ten thousand-foot mountains, too. We'll explore woodlands of juniper and pinyon pine and the world's largest remaining virgin ponderosa pine forest: it is majestic!
This trip is offered only in odd-numbered years.
About Big Wild Adventures
Founded by Howie Wolke in 1978, Big Wild Adventures offers fully outfitted guided backpacking in the wilderness of the American West and Alaska. You will be hiking and camping in the beautiful Rocky Mountains of Wyoming and Montana, including Yellowstone National Park and the Grand Tetons. Our hi…
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